With
rays of sunshine and the thin blue
atmosphere of Earth serving as a
backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial
cargo craft is berthed to the Earth-facing
side of the International Space Station's
Harmony node.

Expedition 31 Flight
Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers
grappled Dragon at 9:56 a.m. (EDT)
with the Canadarm2 robotic arm and
used it to berth Dragon to the at 12:02
p.m. May 25, 2012.

Dragon became the
first commercially developed space
vehicle to be launched to the station to
join Russian, European and Japanese
resupply craft that service the complex
while restoring a U.S. capability to
deliver cargo to the orbital laboratory.

Dragon is scheduled to spend about a
week docked with the station before
returning to Earth on May 31 for
retrieval.